Showing posts with label Black River Falls. Show all posts
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Found: Lingering by the Lake

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Found: Lingering by the Lake "Vacationland Scene". When summer's greens give way to autumn's gold, the vacationer has many happy memories of his summer holiday. A Kodachrome Reproduction by the L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, circa 1959
Found: Greetings from Lac Du Flambeau, Wis. from color transparencies by Curteich Color (CK220), circa 1959.
Message written in fountain pen on the back: "Hi Mother-Fishing has been good. Ate 10 lbs.
 of filet for dinner the other day. Have been swimming quite a bit. Rain yesterday but sunshine
the rest of the time. Be back Friday night. Love, Alice" postmarked June 22, 1959, 5 PM
Found: Greetings from Lake Tomahawk, Wis. from color transparencies by Curteich Color (CK 220), circa 1959.
Found: Greetings from Black River Falls, Wis. Wisconsin's Jackson County, offers the finest in diversified recreation.
Scenic fishing, streams, the lakes, trails in the woods, and the resort areas call you back frequently to 
Wisconsin's vacationland by Speltz Studio, Black River Falls, Wis. made by Dexter, circa 1967.
Message written in ball point pen in Polish on the back postmarked July 19, 1967

Found: Lake Noquebay at Marinette County Park, Crivitz, Wisconsin. From a Ektachrome Transparency.
The L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, Wis. copyright 1961

Post cards became a way to learn about and vicariously experience a depicted place described by a friend in a personalized hand written message. We've found numerous mid-20th century postcards showing both individuals and groups of people absorbed by staring at the landscape while fishing, sitting, strolling or lingering. The stance is often meditative and the activities near the water are never gasoline powered.

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Location: Crivitz, WI 54114, USA

Found: Greetings from Black River Falls

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Found: Greetings from Black River Falls, Wisc., Municipal Swimming Pool, Black River Falls, Wis., by G. R. Brown Post Card Co., Eau Claire, Wisconsin, circa1965
Found: Greetings from Berlin, Wis., Municipal Swimming Pool, Berlin, Wisconsin, "The Fur & Leather City" photo by Livingston of Berlin, circa 1965
The artificiality of the water of the municipal swimming pool glimmers like a chlorine sceneted jewel in the Wisconsin summer sun, a state renowned for its abundant fresh water lakes.

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Location: Berlin, WI 54923, USA

Post-Wisconsin Death Trip

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Funeral Wreath for Boy and Baby, Black River Falls, Wisconsin,
by Charles J. Van Schaick, Wisconsin Historical Society Visual Archive circa 1890
The portrayal of Wisconsin in Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy, now a professor of Literary Journalism at Hampshire College, shows us "subjectivities" in storytelling. In his book published in 1973, Lesy identified history(s) or specifically a 19th-century Wisconsin story never told until he used photographs as "quotations" intermingled with journalistic text to "transform them like light focused by a lens on paper, from a lower form of energy to a higher." Remixing photographs from the Wisconsin Historical Society visual archive by Black River Falls photographer Charles Van Schaick (circa 1890s) and snippets from newspaper articles (1885-1900) by Frank Cooper from the Badger State Banner, Lesy transports the contemporary reader to specific time and place where the vibe can felt even smelled. Lesy, Warren Sussman writes in the book's introduction, used philosopher Walter Benjamin's proposition of producing a work consisting entirely of quotations as a method of inquiry. Wrote Lesy of his project, "It is as much a exercise of history as it is an experiment of alchemy." The news items Lesy curated with their flat and factual descriptions of madness, hopeless, despair, exhaustion, and obsession trans-substantiate to reveal something unspoken. Lesy quotes Cooper: "Poverty and no work caused August Schultz of Appleton to shoot himself in the head while sitting in his little home with his wife and 5 children (9/24/1891)" amidst post-mortem portraits of infants, portraits of middle-aged women and men, families, natives, and horses of the kind small town people would commission of the town photographer. We are left with a portal to gain understanding of the dark tales we are told about our own families around the kitchen table.

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